I know the first time I heard about them back in 2007- I didn't like it one bit. The course credits cannot be transferred to any other colleges. So if you want a degree in nursing, you might wanna just finish it all there from LPN to RN. But even after that, no big hospital around my area likes to hire them. I know how tragic this is- I have a co-worker that's on the last semester of her RN program and this broke out... 4 years of schooling might get reduced to a handful of credits accepted by other schools.